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Jacqueline Luqman
RFK, Jr. Exposes His Right-Wing Tendencies Again, This Time On Abortion
16 Aug 2023
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made and then tried to walk-back comments which supported banning abortion in some circumstances. But he's stuck with his own words and the supposedly anti-establishment presidential candidate is again taking positions that are decidedly right wing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Musab Younis’s Book, “On the Scale of the World”
16 Aug 2023
This week’s featured author is Musab Younis. Younis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. His book is On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought.
Too Black
Black August for the Pendleton 2
16 Aug 2023
Black August is an important month of political education, but it should not solely be about the past. The continued existence of a mass incarceration state targeting Black people demands continued agitation on behalf of the Pendleton 2 and many others.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Manchild in the land of cotton
16 Aug 2023
Man-child in the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: For George, The Seventh of August Movement, 1971
16 Aug 2023
A letter commemorating George Jackson speaks to the origins of Black August.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump Indictment Distraction
16 Aug 2023
The latest Donald Trump indictment is no cause for celebration. The oligarchs still rule, the military industrial complex still gets public money, the criminal justice system he now faces is still constructed to ensnare Black people, and the democracy said to be protected doesn't really exist.
Chelsea Alexandra
Van Jones "Forced" Out of Nonprofit Dream.org, Despite Bezos’ Huge Contribution
23 Aug 2023
Van Jones parlayed his fake leftist credentials into jobs at the Obama administration and CNN. The one-time phony Marxist turned Trump supporter showed his true colors when Amazon's Jeff Bezos gave him $100 million to play with but he was recently forced out of Dream.org.
Narciso Isa Conde
Why Is the U.S. Now Favoring Accelerating the Formation of a Force to Intervene in Haiti?
23 Aug 2023
The impending occupation of Haiti is the latest example of imperialist aggression against that nation and others.
Maureen Clare Murphy
How Washington Shapes ICC To Its Own Aims
23 Aug 2023
The International Criminal Court is itself criminal in its selective prosecutions and obedience to Washington's directives. In turn, the U.S. specifically prohibits aid to the Palestinian Authority if it pursues investigations of Israel.
Gus Griffin
Yes! An NFL Player Can Be Exploited
23 Aug 2023
Michael Oher’s story of exploitation is even worse than the white savior narrative presented by Hollywood.